Editors-in-chief Conference

Editors-in-chief Conference on Transportation Economics

The leading researchers and editors-in-chief (EIC) of first-class transportation economics journals worldwide had a great opportunity to discuss and present their views in the conference online 21 November, 2020.

The conference was sponsored and organized by School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University. Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Hong Kong, and Elsevier were co-organizers of the conference. More than 300 people attended the meeting.

The invited keynote speakers of the conference were:

Elisabetta Cherchi, EIC of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
Chandra R. Bhat, EIC of Transportation Research Part B: Methodology
Qiang Meng, EIC of EIC of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transport Review
Haijun Huang, EIC of Transport Policy
Leonardo J. Basso, EIC of Economics of Transportation

Each invited EIC talked about academic development for their journal in the past five years.

The aim of the annual ITEA Conference is to promote scientific excellence in the field of transport economics and to provide a forum for scientific exchange. Research presented at the Conference covers both theory and empirical work, it includes all transport modes, and it allows a wide range of research methodologies. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, transport pricing and investment, competition policy, transport decisions under uncertainty, agglomeration effects, valuation of intangibles, privatization, the economics of new transport technologies, the political economy of transport decisions, etc.

The aim of the annual ITEA School is to provide young researchers a high quality introduction to academic research on transport economics, including many recent advances in the field. The School’s program consists of a series of lectures and tutorials; all faculty members are among the most prominent researchers in transport economics.